Whenever I try to open Docker Desktop on my Windows 11 machine, it’s just stuck at starting forever. I’ve tried restarting Docker and restarting my machine and none fixed it.
I have multiple containers running, all coming from a docker compose file of mine, and I am trying to fix this without having to reset docker to factory settings or deleting its data since I can’t really afford to.
These are the logs in my dockerd.log file, which I am having a hard time making sense of:
[2023-12-04T02:10:27.493754710Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:27.493564087Z" level=info msg="Starting up"
[2023-12-04T02:10:30.479512864Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:30.479302404Z" level=info msg="[graphdriver] using prior storage driver: overlay2"
[2023-12-04T02:10:36.882299955Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:36.882120359Z" level=info msg="Loading containers: start."
[2023-12-04T02:10:41.696052309Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:41.695922588Z" level=info msg="Removing stale sandbox dce7553ab786b5fefaa95f5d3c90ab24c80b5251db25863511b071a4c2bbba68 (b5d3a6d1d4643900baff342c45377b1a768fd3d5cde7a2649b64182cb2c621f6)"
[2023-12-04T02:10:41.853799071Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:41.853642559Z" level=warning msg="Error (Unable to complete atomic operation, key modified) deleting object [endpoint ac9da0d16b31c4a4b6706d39920d376400a6647d38abfb87edf1f0538be9a0d5 a54f8e058d61a4ac8b11f0f797c51e2f24351150ad38ee528903efb549029f33], retrying...."
[2023-12-04T02:10:42.053843696Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:42.053636202Z" level=info msg="Removing stale sandbox e6ee35a9ac3d77523bead6c8f7c663798c5e5cca56811b06f755d7f3bdd1fd2a (69eff02309bf2a38d77013ba19281027c908bd60ae2faf7c990b058275d7b3f9)"
[2023-12-04T02:10:42.153807592Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:42.153527530Z" level=warning msg="Error (Unable to complete atomic operation, key modified) deleting object [endpoint f09fc28598bf52fc5f06b85f6927f23ea8f4132ed8c4e9b3b8d85884ddc034d8 654cb742b752a44f218f7d2ecef0bc5175f0a7a0bc111bc65accae9edb746641], retrying...."
[2023-12-04T02:10:42.477363554Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:42.477157708Z" level=info msg="Removing stale sandbox fcc6cd9198529f056a8512db752e647d3c74ea83f52489dbfaa359020d2f3342 (073966fdab8b1511cce5ca700a081df5ff609645c4f90f0807edcb54666ebc7a)"
[2023-12-04T02:10:42.664898605Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:42.664708719Z" level=warning msg="Error (Unable to complete atomic operation, key modified) deleting object [endpoint f09fc28598bf52fc5f06b85f6927f23ea8f4132ed8c4e9b3b8d85884ddc034d8 02906517101c5fbd87263121a3742cbca9d20e8a493d359d0b44e65f34efb4f9], retrying...."
[2023-12-04T02:10:42.899554980Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:42.899425240Z" level=info msg="Removing stale sandbox 6f81f5f3c73e327157f83b86042bd5beb485f35a9d44ace9840c353a4c7e27b2 (0c73c24392f8c5512fc6af8bbd431342968de4a217ee9c40159b143e6fcbab91)"
[2023-12-04T02:10:43.020368940Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:43.020158129Z" level=warning msg="Error (Unable to complete atomic operation, key modified) deleting object [endpoint f09fc28598bf52fc5f06b85f6927f23ea8f4132ed8c4e9b3b8d85884ddc034d8 788322abf0ce1b58d635756f66eceb15d443af453e0c1517a353bbaeee026d83], retrying...."
[2023-12-04T02:10:43.310803765Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:43.310584765Z" level=info msg="Removing stale sandbox 6fbf60297893e5db1db7e1789bc8b3afdd727aaa59f24866b0cde300e5e30337 (b6b528cba2694a222d81933287f18c094517bd25d8dba64bdd4f2b801a685935)"
[2023-12-04T02:10:43.409791897Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:43.409554751Z" level=warning msg="Error (Unable to complete atomic operation, key modified) deleting object [endpoint f09fc28598bf52fc5f06b85f6927f23ea8f4132ed8c4e9b3b8d85884ddc034d8 cf4505e457edff2a065f834b7f570ef1576570d6a09cd7e473bb0372ed0d6300], retrying...."
[2023-12-04T02:10:43.588335346Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:43.588163350Z" level=info msg="Removing stale sandbox 77803ea476e36b618b5b0e8b847032406b072ae91eec626652e9abfc3e27eebc (e8a2a53acd9085bde7737f10486640f3c61ab8940463b0c46f687795c47a9d3e)"
[2023-12-04T02:10:43.687016628Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:43.686820516Z" level=warning msg="Error (Unable to complete atomic operation, key modified) deleting object [endpoint f09fc28598bf52fc5f06b85f6927f23ea8f4132ed8c4e9b3b8d85884ddc034d8 18ba6cb46efd32fce48a96921e7f271d909b730d901efc73213c37e477ec8eb8], retrying...."
[2023-12-04T02:10:43.932386102Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:43.932240054Z" level=info msg="Removing stale sandbox 87f69e34dcadb24f8efdb7f5282a6c62eec9a6307b41b136a411b83a1cf8677d (74ea570799388ff838e25291412a848082b5f069cad0559506ab19510b070439)"
[2023-12-04T02:10:43.987915659Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:43.987764757Z" level=info msg="Removing stale sandbox 2782d3f85d4b496f75614fb66f09fc106284bd03d36aa943989f22bfa13fd17d (f3d1963a0954a32dd8fcd10527016f02c76e74c5ff4a2ecf83c42801f14d3023)"
[2023-12-04T02:10:44.098343727Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:44.098156161Z" level=warning msg="Error (Unable to complete atomic operation, key modified) deleting object [endpoint f09fc28598bf52fc5f06b85f6927f23ea8f4132ed8c4e9b3b8d85884ddc034d8 a66eba39ac331d85cedf710f3caf446aadc06ff260fb6f4985b7ea5e36a4c922], retrying...."
[2023-12-04T02:10:44.276773616Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:44.276617059Z" level=info msg="Removing stale sandbox 6523ca82365c4e326071565933b4da2b492299086ac1b6af827154d9a3d71f67 (fcb9c5b3ba93638983e086d4dc19de463e9143daab9da8be8c642ed243335feb)"
[2023-12-04T02:10:44.321707922Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:44.321527879Z" level=info msg="Removing stale sandbox f62bfda3e205408fe78fe36cc3de3f9bc2d84f5dc9a58515ea01b1fe89148936 (dccda855463afb36ed000a8da406e050e26f5ff71cd866cf5d9bafd8fc63391e)"
[2023-12-04T02:10:44.355737493Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:44.355568748Z" level=info msg="Removing stale endpoint homarr (a626d992afadafdc9b1c5e6fc871c592b7fa4513505070925abed299d3fc0ee6)"
[2023-12-04T02:10:44.497891487Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:44.497711701Z" level=info msg="Removing stale endpoint flaresolverr (2ff64b2dd16ee43f7aa77f2dfb891f77f56a7dd20a6a299586bbf9f0db9953f3)"
[2023-12-04T02:10:44.653640987Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:44.653451151Z" level=info msg="Removing stale endpoint sonarr (da5ccf3d4839aad2d79af1d2f5d866b4d2b78187b95fc32fc3ac0756988a12b0)"
[2023-12-04T02:10:44.854039426Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:44.853878065Z" level=info msg="Removing stale endpoint prowlarr (511ebcb7625e54be8cbef883f8c8e6a095976b2e3b2f6c61afe88fc656efe7a5)"
[2023-12-04T02:10:45.198299264Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:10:45.198087797Z" level=info msg="Default bridge (docker0) is assigned with an IP address 172.17.0.0/16. Daemon option --bip can be used to set a preferred IP address"
[2023-12-04T02:11:04.099195691Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:04.099010770Z" level=warning msg="Failed to allocate and map port 8989-8989: Bind for 0.0.0.0:8989 failed: port is already allocated"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.544187915Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.543942609Z" level=warning msg="failed to get endpoint_count map from store: open /var/lib/docker/network/files/local-kv.db: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.544219205Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.544022400Z" level=warning msg="Could not rollback container connection to network media-stack_media"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.544234313Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.544087033Z" level=error msg="fcb9c5b3ba93638983e086d4dc19de463e9143daab9da8be8c642ed243335feb: failed saving state on start failure: open /var/lib/docker/containers/fcb9c5b3ba93638983e086d4dc19de463e9143daab9da8be8c642ed243335feb/.tmp-config.v2.json3810281355: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.544243000Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.544136106Z" level=warning msg="failed to get endpoint_count map from store: open /var/lib/docker/network/files/local-kv.db: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.544245595Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.544177786Z" level=warning msg="Failed to delete sandbox e0ca3842e860210c47d3f54dff1f9dd66627452a726b059af30fbc766d42903c from store: open /var/lib/docker/network/files/local-kv.db: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.616196165Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.616008679Z" level=error msg="failed to start container" container=fcb9c5b3ba93638983e086d4dc19de463e9143daab9da8be8c642ed243335feb error="failed to update store for object type *libnetwork.Endpoint: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.672886394Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.672714893Z" level=warning msg="Failed to delete host side interface (vethbf9ee13)'s link" error="no such device"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.672908967Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.672846222Z" level=error msg="dccda855463afb36ed000a8da406e050e26f5ff71cd866cf5d9bafd8fc63391e: failed saving state on start failure: open /var/lib/docker/containers/dccda855463afb36ed000a8da406e050e26f5ff71cd866cf5d9bafd8fc63391e/.tmp-config.v2.json1997542129: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.674076290Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.673996544Z" level=error msg="dccda855463afb36ed000a8da406e050e26f5ff71cd866cf5d9bafd8fc63391e cleanup: failed to delete container from containerd: read-only file system: unknown"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.674088263Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.674037682Z" level=warning msg="failed to get endpoint_count map from store: open /var/lib/docker/network/files/local-kv.db: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.674094074Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.674052600Z" level=warning msg="error locating sandbox id d1dce33796479bfbbf3ee3515b27cbfbd729abb7eb456ed1884bb21e63b6d331: sandbox d1dce33796479bfbbf3ee3515b27cbfbd729abb7eb456ed1884bb21e63b6d331 not found"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.714311111Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.714169397Z" level=error msg="failed to start container" container=dccda855463afb36ed000a8da406e050e26f5ff71cd866cf5d9bafd8fc63391e error="failed to create endpoint homarr on network media-stack_media: failed to save bridge endpoint 1792a50 to store: failed to update bridge store for object type *bridge.bridgeEndpoint: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.766235281Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.766110643Z" level=warning msg="failed to get endpoint_count map from store: open /var/lib/docker/network/files/local-kv.db: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.766270173Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.766161480Z" level=warning msg="Failed to delete sandbox 7c710f658605175479c2cc8d0d470eb92e8ef403e699f64a1f0ef95e64563d85 from store: open /var/lib/docker/network/files/local-kv.db: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.808942361Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.808826180Z" level=error msg="failed to start container" container=74ea570799388ff838e25291412a848082b5f069cad0559506ab19510b070439 error="driver failed programming external connectivity on endpoint sonarr (91718d5eebd8f1051ed649f94d6258444855be9d6b461e75425a8919a503395c): Bind for 0.0.0.0:8989 failed: port is already allocated"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.977621585Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.977490746Z" level=info msg="Loading containers: done."
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.982308383Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.982213732Z" level=warning msg="Not using native diff for overlay2, this may cause degraded performance for building images: mkdir /var/lib/docker/overlay2/opaque-bug-check2630561342: read-only file system" storage-driver=overlay2
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.982320205Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.982270771Z" level=warning msg="failed to get endpoint_count map from store: open /var/lib/docker/network/files/local-kv.db: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.982332789Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.982289436Z" level=warning msg="WARNING: No blkio throttle.read_bps_device support"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.982333891Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.982304545Z" level=warning msg="WARNING: No blkio throttle.write_bps_device support"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.982336737Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.982308142Z" level=warning msg="WARNING: No blkio throttle.read_iops_device support"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.982336877Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.982310797Z" level=warning msg="WARNING: No blkio throttle.write_iops_device support"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.982337678Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.982313863Z" level=warning msg="WARNING: daemon is not using the default seccomp profile"
[2023-12-04T02:11:10.982360993Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:10.982326988Z" level=info msg="Docker daemon" commit=1a79695 graphdriver=overlay2 version=24.0.6
[2023-12-04T02:11:11.052965975Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:11.052750807Z" level=info msg="Daemon has completed initialization"
[2023-12-04T02:11:11.331357543Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:11.331236693Z" level=info msg="ignoring event" container=e8a2a53acd9085bde7737f10486640f3c61ab8940463b0c46f687795c47a9d3e module=libcontainerd namespace=moby topic=/tasks/delete type="*events.TaskDelete"
[2023-12-04T02:11:11.331380802Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:11.331317531Z" level=info msg="ignoring event" container=69eff02309bf2a38d77013ba19281027c908bd60ae2faf7c990b058275d7b3f9 module=libcontainerd namespace=moby topic=/tasks/delete type="*events.TaskDelete"
[2023-12-04T02:11:11.337956745Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:11.337888911Z" level=error msg="69eff02309bf2a38d77013ba19281027c908bd60ae2faf7c990b058275d7b3f9 cleanup: failed to delete container from containerd: read-only file system: unknown"
[2023-12-04T02:11:11.337968307Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:11.337931222Z" level=warning msg="failed to get endpoint_count map from store: open /var/lib/docker/network/files/local-kv.db: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:11.337974599Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:11.337950408Z" level=warning msg="failed to get endpoint_count map from store: open /var/lib/docker/network/files/local-kv.db: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:11.338012200Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:11.337977109Z" level=warning msg="failed to get endpoint_count map from store: open /var/lib/docker/network/files/local-kv.db: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:11.343890508Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:11.343789650Z" level=warning msg="driver failed revoking external connectivity on endpoint bazarr (39b699b1f9fe1e8eef5b3aab3b1433fa70b77f44650072b7bd43f1e8f5800778): failed to update bridge endpoint 39b699b to store: failed to update bridge store for object type *bridge.bridgeEndpoint: open /var/lib/docker/network/files/local-kv.db: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:11.358833449Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:11.358735117Z" level=error msg="e8a2a53acd9085bde7737f10486640f3c61ab8940463b0c46f687795c47a9d3e cleanup: failed to delete container from containerd: read-only file system: unknown"
[2023-12-04T02:11:11.358856933Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:11.358784000Z" level=warning msg="failed to get endpoint_count map from store: open /var/lib/docker/network/files/local-kv.db: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:11.358864167Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:11.358802936Z" level=warning msg="failed to get endpoint_count map from store: open /var/lib/docker/network/files/local-kv.db: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:11.358867423Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:11.358815329Z" level=warning msg="failed to get endpoint_count map from store: open /var/lib/docker/network/files/local-kv.db: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:11.364942530Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:11.364870473Z" level=warning msg="driver failed revoking external connectivity on endpoint radarr (9f3a391758cd507d112217181591379a25123ba3c914a55464763ccef19940c8): failed to update bridge endpoint 9f3a391 to store: failed to update bridge store for object type *bridge.bridgeEndpoint: open /var/lib/docker/network/files/local-kv.db: read-only file system"
[2023-12-04T02:11:11.369515927Z][dockerd][I] open /var/lib/docker/buildkit/containerdmeta.db: read-only file system
[2023-12-04T02:11:11.369520766Z][dockerd][I] time="2023-12-04T02:11:11.369482278Z" level=info msg="stopping event stream following graceful shutdown" error="context canceled" module=libcontainerd namespace=plugins.moby
[2023-12-04T02:11:11.405931294Z][dockerd][I] EOF
